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Chapel Hill 15 Aug 1862
My dear Sir:
You and I are the sons of old friends, [illegible] of the same county, from under the shadow of the [illegible] [illegible] and [illegible] under similar influences [illegible], [?intellectual] and moral. I suppose you are about 32 - I was but a month short of that age, when elected Governor 30 years ago. The same causes that transferred me from the judicial to the executive department of the government, have [?operation] to withdraw you from the [illegible] [illegible] place you in the chair of [?state]. Then our [illegible] [illegible] in our [illegible] history, [?not] less [?striking], and of deeper interest, which may supply topics of conversation when we meet.
I was elected governor by a [?respectable] [?legislater [sic]] majority over [?candidates] greatly my seniors, and of established [?repat...], you have been called to office by a spontaneous expression of public sentiment an almost universal uprising of the people, without a parallel in [?our] history

Chapel Hill 15 Aug 1862
My dear Sir:
You and I are the sons of old friends, [illegible] of the same county, from under the shadow of the [illegible] [illegible] and [illegible] under similar influences [illegible], [?intellectual] and moral. I suppose you are about 32 - I was but a month short of that age, when elected Governor 30 years ago. The same causes that transferred me from the judicial to the executive department of the government, have [?operation] to withdraw you from the [illegible] [illegible] place you in the chair of [?state]. Then our [illegible] [illegible] in our [illegible] history, [?not] less [?striking], and of deeper interest, which may supply topics of conversation when we meet.
I was elected governor by a [?respectable] [?legislater [sic]] majority over [?candidates] greatly my seniors, and of established [?repat...], you have been called to office by a spontaneous expression of public sentiment an almost universal uprising of the people, without a parallel in [?our] history